Welcome Home Project
Welcome Home offer high quality, well equipped temporary, emergency accommodation for mothers and children, based in London. We work with social workers and agencies needing to provide the accommodation when an emergency situation arises. Each room has its own bathroom, fridge, microwave, desk, chair and TV. Our families share a kitchen, lounge, garden and washing facilities. We offer personalised support to our Mums, from school or nursery applications to connections with local food banks etc, whilst working with social workers to understand each family's specific needs. Contact: Lise Thorne Email: [email protected] Website
West London Welcome
West London Welcome is a community centre run for and with refugees, migrants, people seeking asylum and other locals living in West London. We provide a food bank, social and advice drop-ins, financial, legal and casework support. Contact: Leyla Williams Website
Ekaya Housing Association
Ekaya Housing Association is a BME landlord, provides general needs housing, supported housing, temporary accommodation and shared ownership. Phone: 020 70 911 800 Website
RootsMove CIC
RootsMove supports refugees to settle into new homes in the UK. Contact: Grace Burgess (Director) Email: [email protected] Website
Resettlement CIC
Contact: Melanie Khuddro Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex & London
Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex and London (RAMFEL) is a charity that supports vulnerable migrants to access justice and provides vital support in moments of individual crisis. We are a not for profit organisation, running a busy client facing service. We provide immigration advice (OISC level 3) and generalist advice in a range of areas to support our clients. This goes alongside destitution services and support to build a new life in the UK, with ESOL classes and referrals for support accessing work. Our wide range of experience, drawing on the daily insights from those we work with, as [...]
Oxfordshire Homeless Movement (OHM)
Oxfordshire Homeless Movement is a partnership of the many organisations helping those who are homeless in Oxfordshire. We all work to ensure that nobody should have to sleep rough on our streets. If you think of these organisations as a community, then think of us as the Community Centre! We bring greater visibility to all of the county’s work in this area, signposting volunteers, supporters and those experiencing homelessness to the actions and services they’re looking for. OHM's project work fills the critical gaps in services that others can’t, and always working in partnership means that we have the best [...]
Hope Into Action: Southampton
Hope into Action: Southampton is a project of City Life Church Southampton. It is a franchise, and part of the wider Hope Into Action UK network – a Christian housing project set up to help break the cycle of housing poverty. Website
Signposts (Luton)
Signposts is here to help people who are homeless in Luton and Dunstable, Our aim is to help clients achieve their own maximum potential to live and develop in the community Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook / Twitter
Hope for Southall Street Homeless
Hope for Southall Street Homeless: Enabling people to take ways out of Rough sleeping which result in them leading fulfilled lives. We can only support individuals verified through Ealing Rough Sleeper Agent, St Mungo's. Contact: John Murphy Phone number: 07983 505 138 Email:[email protected] Website / Instagram / Facebook
Connection Support
Connection Support are part of a partnership project across Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire to provide housing, legal advice and support to those who are homeless, refugees and people with NRPF. Phone Number: 01865 711 267 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
NOAH Enterprise
NOAH's mission is to help in alleviating poverty, bringing hope and helping people who have no where to turn to; particularly those who are temporary or entrenched rough sleepers, and those who are marginalized and socially excluded, or have simply fallen into poverty. NOAH takes a holistic approach to homelessness and exclusion and no matter which service a person comes to first they are encouraged to make use of as many areas of NOAH as necessary to enable them to reach their potential. Our services are focused on Luton and the wider Bedfordshire area. We provide accommodation for people [...]
Helen Bamber Foundation
The Helen Bamber Foundation supports refugees and asylum seekers who have experienced human cruelty, including torture, human trafficking and other human rights abuses. We provide specialist care to meet the complex needs of some of the most marginalised and vulnerable people seeking asylum. We offer survivors specialist trauma-focused therapy, legal protection work and expert medico-legal reports, counter-trafficking safeguarding, medical assessment and liaison, housing and welfare casework, and creative arts and skills programmes to help people rebuild their lives. Phone: 0203 058 2020 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Haringey Migrant Support Centre (HMSC)
Haringey Migrant Support Centre (HMSC) runs a weekly service for migrants providing advice and casework on immigration, welfare, housing and community care issues. It also offers destitution support as well as referring or signposting to other specialist organisations supporting migrants with their specific needs. During the Monday drop-in we provide a hot meal, food parcels and a welcoming space offering opportunities for connection and participation. HMSC is attended by 35-45 people every week; some of them come with children and at least a third are new visitors. These are individuals who, due to their lack of status, are excluded from [...]
Glass Door Homeless Charity
Glass Door Homeless Charity is London's largest open-access network of emergency winter shelters and support services for men and women affected by homelessness. By partnering with churches to provide shelter and support, Glass Door is committed to supporting people get—and stay—off the street. Glass Door offers shelter, advice and support through a wide-range of services. Contact: Anna Yassin Phone: 0207 351 4948 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Crisis
Crisis Crisis works directly with thousands of homeless people every year. They provide vital help so that people can rebuild their lives and are supported out of homelessness for good. They offer one to one support, advice and courses for homeless people in 12 areas across England, Scotland and Wales. How Crisis helps someone depends on their individual needs and situation. It could be with finding a home and settling in, getting new skills and finding a job, or help with their health and wellbeing. Crisis uses research to find out how best to improve their services, but also to [...]
Refugee Council
The Refugee Council works directly with thousands of refugees each year. The charity supports them from the moment they arrive in the UK. They provide crisis advice and practical support, help them to integrate into their new communities and offer mental health counselling to help them come to terms with the trauma so many of them have experienced. The Refugee Council is the only organisation providing a national service in support of refugee children and young people who arrive in the UK alone. They also speak up for refugees using their work as an evidence base and ensure refugees have [...]
Martha House
Martha House is a small charity providing accommodation to forced migrants experiencing homelessness in London. Food and accommodation are provided for guests who have no recourse to public funds and are not allowed to work. Open to forced migrants with low support needs, who are engaging with services to regularise their immigration status. We accept referrals from agencies who work with migrants who will continue to support clients with their immigration issues or who work closely with their client’s immigration advisers/legal team and will continue to offer clients their services and facilities. We are unable to accept referrals to The [...]
Commonweal Housing Limited
Commonweal works with Praxis Community Projects (a Full NACCOM Member) to run an NRPF housing project in London. The project provides free bed spaces for single women with NRPF, cross subsidised by income from housing families to whom local authorities have a Section 17 responsibility. Commonweal provide the houses, as well as strategic support and ongoing evaluation. Website / Twitter
Refugees in Effective and Active Partnership (REAP)
Refugees in Effective and Active Partnership (REAP) is an independent refugee-led charity in West London that aims to support refugees as they rebuild new lives in West London, and to live as valued and equal members of British society. The charity provides support, facilitation and training for people and services who work with refugees to improve responsiveness to refugees daily realities and needs. This includes networking activities and events, as well as various activities around access to English, Young refugees and mental health, Right to Refuge, Refugees in Equality, Interpreting (quality, access and also rights and treatment of interpreters). Phone: [...]
Together With Migrant Children
Together with Migrant Children works with children, young people and families who are migrants, refugees or asylum seekers. We work nationwide, with the majority of our work in London and the South East. We are a small team of social workers, youth workers and other family practitioners. We provide holistic support for families, support with safeguarding, work and advocacy with families with No Recourse to Public Funds and carry out assessment work for a wide variety of different purposes. We also run activity days for destitute migrant children and their families. Phone: 01865 528 658 Email: [email protected] Website
Young Roots
Young Roots. We provide one to one casework support to young asylum seekers and refugees between the ages of 11-25 in Croydon and Brent. We help them to access services, accommodation and support. Website
Watford & Three Rivers Refugee Partnership (WTRRP)
Watford & Three Rivers Refugee Partnership (WTRRP) Watford & Three Rivers Refugee Partnership (WTRRP) offers support to refugees, asylum seekers and non-European migrants with no recourse to public funds in West Hertfordshire. Our mission is to help provide access to the advice and services needed, often providing long term support (i.e. basic needs including food, ESOL, befriending etc) until statutory services are in place. WTRRP does not provide accommodation but finds ‘ways and means’ to help source emergency accommodation. Phone: 01923 252434 Email: [email protected] Website
Action for Refugees in Lewisham
Action for Refugees in Lewisham (AFRIL) was set up in 2006 to reduce the poverty of local refugees and asylum-seekers, advance their education and raise awareness about refugees rights and needs. Services include advice in welfare benefits, housing, education, employment, health and immigration, a supplementary Saturday School for children aged 4-11 and a foodbank for destitute asylum-seekers and refugees. Please note that AFRIL does not operate a drop-in service. To refer or self-refer to our services, please use email or telephone. Contact: Sophie Wickham Phone: 0208 297 4111 Email: [email protected] Website /Facebook Please note the pin does not reflect the accurate location of [...]
Sufra NW London
Sufra NW London is a community hub that provides emergency food parcels, a community kitchen, guidance and advocacy, an accredited Food Academy course, a refugee resettlement programme, and a Community Growing Project that provides training in horticulture, school environmental visits and a vocational training course. Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Jesuit Refugee Service UK
The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international Catholic organisation, at work in over 50 countries around the world with a mission to accompany, serve and advocate on behalf of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons. JRS has been established in the UK for over 20 years, and its work here focuses on showing hospitality to, and supporting the needs of, destitute asylum seekers and people in detention. Activities include a day centre, hosting programme, detention outreach and advocacy work. Contact: Amy-Leigh Hatton Phone: 0207 488 7310 Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook.
C4WS Homeless Project
C4WS runs a winter night shelter from November to the end of March every year. We do not accept self referrals, but you can visit one of our partners who will take you through the processes of applying for a space based on suitability and availability. Please find details of where to go on the I AM HOMELESS page on our website. We also run a hosting scheme, which is only open to guests who have stayed with us at our winter night shelter. Website
Thousand 4 £1000
Thousand 4 £1000 CIO is a discrete offshoot of Brighton Migrant Solidarity (BMS being focused mainly on campaigning). We are the only organisation in the Brighton area providing housing support to destitute migrants who are not allowed to work or have no recourse to public funds. We take referrals directly from organisations such as Brighton Voices in Exile. In addition to accommodation, we also provide financial, practical and emotional support to locally based migrants. Contact: Jenny Priestman Email: [email protected] Website / Facebook
Voices in Exile
Voices in Exile work with refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants with no recourse to public funds in East and West Sussex and Surrey. We offer practical and legal support including generalist advice and specialist immigration casework (up to OISC Level 2) for those who would otherwise be unable to access justice. As part of our holistic approach we also offer practical support including a weekly food and toiletries bank for those who are destitute; and also advocate for, accompany and enable people to access services, build community, and develop their own potential through a programme of learning and creative activities. [...]
Refugee Support Group
Refugee Support Group helps refugees and asylum seekers to rebuild their lives in Berkshire. Started in 1994 by a group of refugees, we now provide services to hundreds of families and individuals across all of Berkshire. We support refugees from more than 50 countries who have escaped war, violence, persecution and modern slavery. Many have been victims of human trafficking. Some have been tortured. Some have No Recourse to Public Funds. We provide a safe space, OISC accredited advice, practical support and social activities. We run English classes and assist with accessing education, volunteering and employment. We empower our community [...]